tang

noun

1. A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor.

   “a tang of citrus”

   “The miraculous air, heady with ozone and made memorably sweet by leagues of wild flowerets, gave tang and savour to the breath.”

   “To make yogurt, milk or cream is pasteurized and homogenized, then Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophiles bacteria are added to convert the lactose into lactic acid. This is what thickens it, and gives it the distinct tang.”

2. A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.

   “a tang of cellar”

   “Wine or cider has a tang of the cask.”

3. (figuratively)A sharp, specific flavor or tinge.

   “a tang of pedantry”

   “Such proceedings had a strong tang of tyranny.”

   “a cant of philosophism, and a tang of party politics”

   “What, was it I who bared my heart / Through unrelenting years, / And knew the sting of misery's dart, / The tang of sorrow's tears?”

4. A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.

   “(archaic)”

   “slip the cable over the tang”

   “"And inside the joints, these so-called O-rings are supposed to expand to make a seal—is that right?" ¶ "Yes, sir. In static conditions they should be in direct contact with the tang and clevis and squeezed twenty-thousandths of an inch."”

5. A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.

   “full-tang”

   “A full-tang knife is strongest against handle breakage, but partial-tang knives are common because of a combination of facts: they are inexpensive, and in some applications any manner of use that would exceed the handle's limit is not an appropriate manner of use.”

6. A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.

   “I spent the evening collecting the abandoned nests of birds from a rock face a half league distant, and that night I struck fire from the tang of Terminus Est and boiled the coarse meal (which took a long time to cook, because of the altitude) and ate it.”

7. A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.

   “The rifle carried a vernier sight on the tang[…]”

8. A shuffleboard paddle.
9. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of tongue.

   “1667, John Lacy, Sauny the Scot: Or, the Taming of the Shrew, Act V, Sauny Hear ye, sir; could not ye mistake, and pull her tang out instead of her teeth?”

10. (broadly)Anything resembling a tongue in form or position, such as the tongue of a buckle.
11. A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
12. (countable, rare, uncountable)knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed)
13. (countable)The vagina or vulva.

    “The guys like to look at her tang, because that's how they are […]”

14. (uncountable)Sexual intercourse with a woman
15. Any of a group of saltwater fish from the family Acanthuridae, especially the genus Zebrasoma.

verb

1. (dated)To strike two metal objects together loudly in order to persuade a swarm of honeybees to land so it may be captured by the beekeeper.
2. To make a ringing sound; to ring.

   “let thy tongue tang arguments of state”

name

1. The imperial dynasty of China which reigned from 618 to 907.

   “The two sculptures, which were part of religious rites, belong to the Tang dynasty, which ruled between 618 and 907 AD and is considered a golden period of the Chinese civilization.”

2. The Turkic dynasty of China which lasted from 923 to 936.

   “Empress Liu (ca. 890-926 A.D.), whose birthplace was Chenan in Wei (now Chenan county, Hebei province), was the wife of Li Cunxu, who reigned as Emperor Zhuangzong, during the Tang dynasty.”

3. A kingdom in China which existed between 937 and 975.
4. Any of a number of places in China.
5. Any of a number of places in China.

   “A biography of Hu claims that Hu's attitudes changed in 1961, after he was sent to supervise agricultural policy changes in Tang county, Hebei province.”

6. A Chinese surname from Mandarin.
7. A Chinese surname from Mandarin.
8. A Chinese surname from Cantonese.
9. A Chinese surname from Cantonese.
10. A Chinese surname from Teochew.
11. A Chinese surname from Hokkien.
12. Any of a number of places, including a village in Iran and a village in Afghanistan.
13. A gewog of Bumthang District, Bhutan.